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Nürburgring, BRD

Date: 12/7/1987
Track length: 4.542 m
Attendance: unknown
Entries accepted: unknown
Starters: 38
Finishers: 19

Pole position: Niedzwietz/Soper in 1.46,61
Fastest lap: Ludwig in 1.48,59

Distance: 3,5 hours
Average speed: 148,205 kmh
Weather:
Ruleset: Group A
Car info: 1987 Cars

 

Finally, the big Fords beat the small BMW’s. No wonder, with BMW racing in a lower division, but the first three races went to BMW anyway. But now the Fords had speed and stamina: pole, race win, lap record for Ludwig and Niedzwiedz; but not a double victory, since Soper retired soon with a broken turbo.
Neither the private Fords nor the BMW’s could match the speed of the Eggenberger cars, which had done a lot of testing and finally came with 16” wheels at the front and 17” at the rear - gone was the understeer.
The Wolf Sierra with Winkelhock and van Ommen seemed to finish third, until the brakes gave up; Rouse and Tassin had two punctures; Maserati, now with fuel injection looked promising but then faded with brake trouble and finally a broken turbo; and Alfa Romeo was uncompetitive as usual. Walkinshaw appeared with his Holden, but the car was uncompetitive and retired with brake problems. Finally BMW: Schnitzer finished second and third, while Cecotto in the CiBiEmme car was unlucky when after many problems his engine gave up shortly before the end of the race. Alpina was quick, but lost a wheel four times (!).


Division 1, 2 and 3
Pos Pos in class Champ
pos.
# Team / Entrant
Car- Engine
Drivers, Nationality Engine
vol. (cc)
Engine
Type
Group Distance,
time
Qualifying position Qualifying time Fastest lap Reason out,
remarks
1 1 1/1 7 Eggenberger Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Klaus Ludwig, D
Klaus Niedzwiedz, D
(Pierre Dieudonné, B)
1993 tc L4 Div. 3 111 2 1.46,66    
2 1 2/1 40 Schnitzer
BMW M3
Roberto Ravaglia, I
Emanuele Pirro, I
2332 L4 Div. 2 111 6 1.48,68    
3 2 3/2 46 Schnitzer
BMW M3
Roland Ratzenberger, A
Markus Oestreich, D
2332 L4 Div. 2 110 9 1.48,73    
4 3     Linder Rennsport
BMW M3
Winfried Vogt, D
Altfrid Heger, D
2332 L4 Div. 2 109 8 1.48,72    
5 4 4/3 43 Bigazzi
BMW M3
Luis Perez Sala, E
Olivier Grouillard, F
2332 L4 Div. 2 109 11 1.49,36    
6 5   69 Team Vogelsang/Valier
BMW M3
Harald Grohs, D
Eric Van de Poele, B
2332 L4 Div. 2 109 7 1.48,69    
7 6   48 CiBiEmme Sport
BMW M3
Luciano Lovato, I
Fabio Mancini, I
2332 L4 Div. 2 108 18 1.51,25    
8 2 5/2 8 Andy Rouse Engineering
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Andy Rouse, GB
Thierry Tassin, B
1993 tc L4 Div. 3 107 10 1.48,89    
9 7 6/4 75 Alfa Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Jacques Laffite, F
Paolo Barilla, I
(Giorgio Pianta, I)
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 106 16 1.50,71    
10 8 7/5   Alfa Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Giorgio Francia, I
Jean-Louis Schlesser, F
(Giorgio Pianta, I)
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 106 20 1.51,44    
11 9 8/6 77  
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Gabriele Tarquini, I
Rinaldo Drovandi, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 106 28 1.53,18    
12 10 9/7 78 Brixia Corse
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Carlo Rossi, I
Alessandro Santin, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 104 27 1.53,12    
13 3      
Holden VL Commodore
Alex Guyaux, B
Michel Delcourt, B
4980 V8 Div. 3 104 30 1.54,80    
14 11      
BMW M3
Zdenek Vojtech, CS
Bretislav Enge, CS
2332 L4 Div. 2 103 23 1.51,79    
15 1      
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Herbert Lingmann, D
Ludwig Hölzl, D
1587 L4 Div. 1 100 35 2.00,51    
16 12      
BMW M3
Giovanni Fontanesi, YV
Zdenek Vojtech, CS
2332 L4 Div. 2 95 15 1.50,70    
17 2   100 Bigazzi
Alfa Romeo 33
Carlo Brambilla ("Toby"), I
Luis Villamil, E
1498 B4 Div. 1 95 39 2.03,28    
18 3      
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Georg Alber, D
Helmut Maier, D
Antonín Charouz, CS
1587 L4 Div. 1 94 32 1.59,95    
19   10/8 80 Q-Racing
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Thomas Lindström, S
Mikael Naebrink, S
1779 tc L4 Div. 2 78 26 1.53,12    
DNF     57 AMG Marko RSM
Mercedes 190 E 2.3-16
Peter Oberndorfer, D
Franz Klammer, A
2323 L4 Div. 2   17 1.50,78   Engine
DNF        
Volvo 240 Turbo
Leif Lindström, S
Per Stureson, S
2141 tc L4 Div. 3   12 1.50,05   Gearbox
DNF     3 TWR
Holden VL Commodore
Tom Walkinshaw, GB
Jeff Allam, GB
4980 V8 Div. 3   14 1.50,46   Brakes
DNF   NC 1 Pro Team Italia/Imberti
Maserati Biturbo 331 B25
Bruno Giacomelli, I
Armin Hahne, D
Marcello Gunnella, I
2491 tc V6 Div. 3 48 13 1.50,20   Turbo
DNF     42 CiBiEmme Sport
BMW M3
Johnny Cecotto, YV
Gianfranco Brancatelli, I
2332 L4 Div. 2   3 1.47,38   Oil sump
DNF     11 Wolf Racing Team
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Joachim Winkelhock, D
Jörg van Ommen, D
1993 tc L4 Div. 3   4 1.48,10   Brakes
DNF     6 Eggenberger Motorsport
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
Steve Soper, GB
Pierre Dieudonné, B
(Klaus Niedzwiedz, D)
1993 tc L4 Div. 3 46 1 1.46,61   Turbo
DNF     52 BMW-Alpina
BMW M3
Ellen Lohr, D
Fabien Giroix, F
2332 L4 Div. 2   5 1.48,23   Lost wheel
DNF        
BMW M3
Thomas von Löwis of Menar, D
Leopold von Bayern, D
Jan Thoelke, D
2332 L4 Div. 2   19 1.51,39    
DNF        
BMW M3
Kurt König, D
Walter Nussbaumer, CH
2332 L4 Div. 2   21 1.51,60    
DNF        
Ford Sierra XR4 TI
Manuel Reuter, D
Kris Nissen, DK
2320 tc L4 Div. 3   22 1.51,78    
DNF       Werginz
BMW M3
Helmut König, A
Karl Baron, A
Heribert Werginz, A
2332 L4 Div. 2   24 1.51,80    
DNF   NC 79? Albatech
Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo
Walter Voulaz, I
Marcello Cipriani, I
D'Avanzo, I
1779 tc L4 Div. 2   25 1.52,98    
DNF     60 Schnitzer
BMW M3
Anette Meeuvissen, D
Mercedes Stermitz, A
Altfrid Heger, D
2332 L4 Div. 2   29 1.54,10    
DNF        
BMW M3
Milos Bychl, CS
Dagmar Suster, YU
2332 L4 Div. 2   31 1.58,15   Accident
DNF        
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Pierre Fermine, B
Serge De Liedekerke, B
1587 L4 Div. 1   33 2.00,03    
DNF        
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Stig Gruen, S
Erik Høyer, DK
1587 L4 Div. 1   34 2.00,33    
DNF        
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Guy Katsers, B
Jean-Claude Burton, B
1587 L4 Div. 1   36 2.00,59    
DNF        
VW Golf GTI
Heinz Pütz, D
Wolfgang Kudrass, D
1596 L4 Div. 1   37 2.00,80    
DNF        
Toyota Corolla GT AE86
Antonín Charouz, CS
Pierluigi Grassetto, I
Daniele Toffoli, I
1587 L4 Div. 1   38 2.00,86    
DNQ        
Toyota Supra 3.0i MA70
Hans Heyer, D
Eddy Joosen, B
2954 L6 Div. 3     1.57,96    
DNQ        
Toyota Supra 3.0i MA70
Enzo Calderari, CH
Maurizio Micangeli, I
2954 L6 Div. 3     1.58,07    
DNQ        
Toyota Supra 3.0i MA70
Philippe Müller, CH
Jo Zeller, CH
2954 L6 Div. 3     1.58,77